Name: The Forbidden Room
Released: 1919
Cast: Gladys Brockwell, William Scott, J. Barney Sherry, Harry Dunkinson, Al Fremont

Brief Synopsis

Cast & Crew

Film Details

Release Date

Mar 2, 1919

Premiere Information

not available

Production Company

Fox Film Corp.

Distribution Company

Fox Film Corp.

Country

United States

Technical Specs

Sound

Silent

Color

Black and White

Film Length

5 reels

Synopsis

After stenographer Ruth Lester resigns to avoid the advances of her boss, the chief of police, she gets a position with District Attorney Anthony Curtis, a fighter for reform who is unpopular with police officials. Curtis, who falls in love with Ruth, asks her to accompany him in an official capacity to the mountains for a needed rest. When Ruth slips while fishing, Curtis catches her and they embrace. As he proposes, spies sent by the police chief and Mason Clark, a crooked contractor whom Anthony is working to ruin, take photographs which appear in newspapers illustrating a trumped-up "white slavery" scandal. Thinking that Ruth framed him, Anthony fires her. She goes to work for Clark, and lures him to a hotel where they are arrested for breaking a hotel ordinance. During the subsequent trial, Ruth lies and ruins her reputation, until she gets Clark, who loves his children, to agree to confess to Anthony's frame-up. Afterward, Anthony and Ruth are reunited.